Ok, sorry about taking so long with this chapter, but I've been kind of busy. I finally got my internet back! But it's been like what, a whole month.
I was just reading through everything I've typed and I realized how little I actually have, so I have to get working on it...
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Zelda and Kari headed home, with Zelda singing the whole time and Kari staring into space the whole time.
"I can't believe you're having a baby! And just in time for Lee's birthday too! Telling him will be the best present ever for him!" Zelda said, smiling.
"No! You can't tell him!" Kari said suddenly, Zelda stopped singing,
"Kari, you have to tell him, he has a right to know." Zelda said,
"I-I can't tell him! I just can't! I still don't know what I'm going to do. I remember a few nights ago, when I sat very still, I could feel something moving around inside of me. It kind of scared me, but then I forgot about it…" she muttered, staring out the window,
"Can I at least tell Link then? I send him a letter, but I'll warn him not to tell Lee, ok?" Zelda asked,
Kari looked at Zelda; she could tell Zelda was excited about becoming a grandparent.
"All right, but please don't let him tell Lee, I don't know how I'm going to hide this from him…" Kari said, staring into space once more.
"Kari, you shouldn't hide this from him, I won't tell him if you don't want me to, but Kari, hiding this from him is like hiding the face that you're getting married or something, sooner or later, he's going to find out. We both know that." Zelda said softly, she put her hand on Kari's shoulder.
"All right Zelda, I promise I'll tell him, as soon as I figure out a way to break it to him gently…" Kari promised, biting her lip.
Zelda notice Kari still didn't look happy.
"Kari… what's the matter?" she asked.
"Zelda… what do I do? I don't know how to be a mother; I'm only eighteen! And Lee's only eighteen too! He doesn't know how to be a father, he told me so." Kari suddenly burst out.
Zelda put her hand on Kari's shoulder,
"Kari, don't worry, your instinct will kick in. Yours and Lee's will both kick in, trust me, mine did."
Kari bit her lip again, and remembered the conversation that had followed at the witches place.
"That's why you've been sick all week," Zelda said,
"What about the strange blue light then?" Kari asked, glancing down at her stomach.
"Oh that, that is just your baby moving around, you see for some reason, your child creates that light, turning it on and off when ever he or she is awake or asleep." the witch said,
Kari sat down in a chair, her hand on her forehead,
'My baby is moving around inside me.' she thought,
"How many months pregnant is she?" Zelda asked, sitting next to Kari.
"She's almost a month pregnant." the witch replied.
End flashback.
"We are celebrating tonight Kari! Just you and me, the only female relatives, but just promise me this." Zelda said, pausing dramatically, Kari looked up at her,
"Promise me you'll let me say goodnight to my grandchild tonight!" Zelda finished; Kari nodded.
"Sure, go ahead." Kari replied as the carriage pulled up at Hyrule castle.
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That night…
Kari was in her bedroom, ready for a long night's sleep, just then there was a knock on the door.
"Come in." Kari said, and the door opened and Zelda appeared,
"I just really wanted to say goodnight to my grandchild!" Zelda said, Kari nodded, smiling; Zelda leaned down until she could see the faint blue light,
"Goodnight my sweet little grandchild." Zelda cooed, suddenly, the blue light went out, and Zelda stood up.
"I think your baby's ready for bed." she announced, Kari giggled.
"I guess so."
Zelda soon left and Kari crawled in bed, exhausted from the long events of the day.
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The next day, Zelda roamed around the castle, searching for a certain daughter-in-law and grandchild. She found Kari in the library, soft music was playing, and Kari was leaning back in a chair, her head tilted back and her eyes closed.
"What are you doing?" Zelda asked, staring curiously at the phonograph.
Kari lifted her head up.
"I'm calming this kid down while I get some sleep, little sucker kept me up most of the night with that blue glowing." Kari said, leaning her head back against the chair.
(Note I heard that playing music from Mozart and other musicians makes babies smarter, and in Kari's case, calmer.)
Zelda tried not to laugh as she leaned down,
"Try not to keep mommy up any more." she whispered to the blue glow before quietly exiting the room.
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Two days later, Kari was still adjusting to the factor of being pregnant. She still vomited from time to time, but she was getting much better, and was excited that Lee would be home very soon.
Lee's birthday was only two days away, and the whole kingdom was preparing to celebrate the prince's nineteenth birthday. And Kari's birthday was only two weeks after Lee's. There was just one problem.
How do I tell Lee that I'm carrying his unborn child? Kari wondered; Zelda was beginning to find Kari in the library frequently.
"Still keeping you up at night?
"Yup, it's impossible to sleep with that blue light filling up the whole room. And on the rare occasion that he or she does stop the glowing, it usually in the daytime." Kari said bitterly, making Zelda laugh,
"Baby sleeps all day, when mother's awake, then stays up all night, and keeps mom up all night with it." Zelda said, sitting next to Kari.
"Exactly." Kari said, leaning her head back,
"I suggest going to bed early tonight." Zelda said, Kari lifted her head up and gave Zelda a sarcastic type of smile.
"Yea." she said, letting her head drop back again.
Zelda made Kari go to bed early that night, but not before she lectured her grandchild.
"Now you be good and let mommy sleep tonight, and you sleep too, that way you can be all rested up to meet daddy when he comes home. Ok?" Zelda cooed,
"Yea, right, I haven't sleep all through the night in three days." Kari muttered, heading down the hallway.
Zelda rolled her eyes and continued reading the books she had started, later that night, around midnight, Zelda heard a noise outside, she peeked out the window and almost leaped with joy, she rushed over to the door and opened it, hugging Lee as he came inside,
"Lee! You're back!" she cried, hugging him.
"Yeah, I'm back, where's Kari?" Lee asked, (the first thing he say is 'where's Kari?)
"She's in your room, be careful she might be sleeping, she hasn't slept through the night in three days." Zelda replied. Lee looked shocked.
"Why not?" he asked. Zelda shrugged,
"I don't know, ask her." Lee nodded and was about to go to their room when Kari emerged from the hallway, still wearing her Kokori tunic,
"Zelda, ya think you could be quiet? I'm trying to sleep here…"
"Kari." Lee said; Kari looked up.
"Lee!?"
Lee smiled and nodded; Kari smiled, then raced over to him and jumped into his arms.
"Lee! You're back!" she said, hugging him, Lee nodded, then he picked her up and swung her around, Kari laughed and kissed him, while Zelda sat nearby, smiling as she read her book.
Kari and Lee broke apart and Kari asked, "When did you get back?"
"Just now," Lee replied, Kari smiled, and the two of them headed down the hallway towards their room.
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The next morning, Lee and Kari talked over breakfast.
"So what did you do while I was gone?" Kari asked, not touching any of the bacon and eggs in front of her, instead she watched Lee as he filled his plate and began to tell her.
"Well, it took us a few days to get there, maybe about four days, at least. Then when we got there, it took us a few days to sort things out with the king, his daughter kept hanging around me, so I finally joined dad and the king, because she wasn't allowed in there. When we first met the king, he and his daughter seemed very interested in me, but dad set them straight, he told both of them that I was married and that I wasn't planning to get divorced at all.
After that both the king and his daughter asked me about you."
"What did you tell them?" Kari asked; her green eyes fixed on him.
"I told them you were beautiful, smart, loyal and patient, and I also told them about how we grew up together," Lee replied, smiling.
"You really said all that?" Kari said, her voice soft. Lee nodded,
"What else did you tell them?" Kari asked,
"Well, they insisted that I show them a picture of you, so I did." Lee said, he pulled some pictures out of his tunic and handed them to her,
One was a picture of just Kari, sitting in the garden, smiling, the other was a picture of Lee and Kari together,
"What did they say? When you showed them the pictures I mean." Kari said, gazing at the pictures.
"The king said, 'she's beautiful', then he said, 'I have a son too you know.'" Kari laughed,
"He really said that?"
(Note the king wanted to see a picture of Kari to see if Lee really was married, and not just trying to trick them.)
"Yep, his daughter didn't really like the pictures very much, but his son did, the king asked me to show his son the pictures, his son said you were beautiful." Lee said, looking down at his plate.
Kari studied him, narrowing her eyes at him,
"You're not jealous are you? Just because some prince said that I was pretty?" Kari said, trying to look him in the eyes,
"I'm not jealous, I'm worried, what if that king tried to have me killed so his son could marry you?" Lee said, not meeting Kari's eyes.
Kari put her arm on Lee's shoulder, "I don't think he would do that, kings don't just go and have people killed so they can marry their children off to their wives."
Lee sighed and looked up at Kari, who smiled and hugged him.
"Well, keep going, tell me what happened next." Kari said, pulling away.
"Well, after the whole picture ordeal, the king's daughter started following me, batting her eyelashes at me when ever she got the chance, so after the first day I started joining dad and the king, cause she wasn't allowed in there.
But after I got the letter about you having nightmares, I wanted to go home, I interrupted dad and the king and told dad about mom's letter, dad read the letter and told me to go home ahead of him.
Although the king and his daughter were slightly disappointed in seeing me go. But my princess needed me, so I left." Lee said, finishing his food.
"Sounds like the trip went well then." Kari said, watching him eat with out taking anything herself.
"Yeah, and the king wants us to come back soon." Lee said, "In fact, dad has to go back there soon, maybe this time you can go with us." Lee said,
Kari's eyes brightened, "yeah! That would be fun, I've never really been outside Hyrule!" she said excitedly.
"So, what did you do while I was gone?" Lee asked, pushing his plate aside, he had noticed that she hadn't eaten anything.
Kari went from smiling to frowning in two seconds.
She bit her lip and stared at her hands. Wondering what to say.
What do I tell him? She wondered, Lee noticed her silence and grew worried.
"Kari? Is everything ok? Are you ok?" He asked, watching her, Kari took a deep breath and looked up.
"Yeah, everything's fine. I had an ok time, I was sick the whole time though. So I just kind of hung out around the castle, I went to the library a lot too."
"Why'd you hang out there?" Lee asked, his blue eyes still slightly worried,
"It's just quiet and peaceful there, most of the time I slept in there, I haven't been getting much sleep lately." Kari said, avoiding Lee's eyes.
"What!? Why haven't you been getting any sleep? Are you still sick? Are you ok?" Lee asked, worry once again clouding his eyes,
Kari looked up at him, " yeah, I am still a little sick. Maybe that's why I haven't been getting any sleep…" Kari trailed, Lee still worried.
Finally Kari stood up,
"I'm going to the library, I'll be back in a while," she said before heading towards the hallway,
"Hey Kari! Why didn't you eat anything?" Lee called after her; Kari winced and turned around.
Something is defiantly wrong, Lee thought, he had seen Kari wince,
"Uh… I'm just not hungry, that's all." Kari lied, she quickly jogged down the hallway. Leaving Lee to stare suspiciously after her.
Kari quickly entered the library, closing the door behind her; she breathed a sigh of relief.
That was close, she thought, she didn't like lying to Lee. Carefully she glanced around the room to make sure no one was there.
Seeing that there was nobody there, she glanced down at her stomach.
"You're gonna get me in trouble with your father." she said, the blue glow quickly went out.
"Finally, you're going to sleep! Not I can sleep too!" Kari said, she turned the phonograph on and grabbed a pillow before jumping onto the couch; resting her head on the side, she was asleep instantly.
Lee headed straight for the library; knowing Kari would be there. And hopefully some answers.
Lee quietly opened the door to the library and glanced inside, looking around to make sure no one was inside before creeping in.
Kari was there all right, sleeping on the couch, Lee crept over and studied her; she was in a very deep sleep. Curled up with the pillow under on of her arms.
Lee smiled and gently ran his finger down her cheek; Kari moved and shifted slightly. Her actions caused the blue glow (otherwise known as Kari's baby) to turn on, Lee, puzzled, knelt down and studied it.
"That's odd," he said, he stood back up and gently shook Kari.
"Kari… wake up, Kari." he muttered, Kari stirred and opened her eyes.
"Lee? Aww, man, come on, I was in a deep sleep." she said, her eyes still heavy. Lee smirked and picked her up bridal style.
"Com' on, I'll take you to our room." he said, carrying Kari out of the library, she was asleep again before he had even closed the door, her head resting gently against his chest. Lee smiled and carried her to their room, where he laid her gently on the bed.
"Sleep well Kari," he muttered, she would need it, for the next day was the prince's 19th birthday. And she was going to need all the energy she had.
Kari slept through the rest of the day and most of the night, finally, at about four in the morning, she woke up, and Lee was already asleep.
"Wow, how long did I sleep?" she muttered, noticing the darkness. The blue light in her stomach blinked on and off a few times.
"Oh be quiet." she muttered playfully, glancing around, she saw Lee asleep in the bed, so she quietly crept over to the window seat and sat down, the sky was just beginning to turn pink, and Kari could see the garden below.
She glanced down at her glowing stomach, and suddenly all her worries came to her mind.
How am I going to tell Lee? She thought, biting her lip. She glanced over to where he was sleeping.
He doesn't suspect at all. She thought; what am I going to do? How can I tell him? If he found out, everything would change, what if I was barely be able to leave the castle, or do anything, except wonder around the castle. And besides, he would feel guilty every time he had to leave. Oh what do I do?
Kari stared out the window for a while, pondering her troublesome thoughts, after a while the sun started to come up, and Kari fell asleep, leaning against the window.
I wasn't completly satisfied with this chapter, after I went back and read everything I've typed, I realized how much I've improved in my writing since I first started, the first story me and my cousin typed is... odd. But these stories are much better, so enjoy!
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